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Switch’n Lanez
2025 · Animation · 12 min 18 sec
San Francisco and Oakland nightlife form the setting for an animated story about the gap between people’s public personas and private lives. Clubs, relationships, and late-night complications turn familiar Bay Area routines into changing judgments about the characters and the decisions they make.
- Creator
- Marlon McKenney
- Release date
- August 23, 2025
- Runtime
- 12 min 18 sec
- Genre
- Animation
- Genre context
- Creator-described AI-animated short rooted in San Francisco and Oakland nightlife.
- Viewing source
- Marlon McKenney on Vimeo ↗
- Format
- AI-generated / AI-assisted film
- AI production
- Created by Marlon McKenney, who credits his own concept, script, dialogue, soundtrack, motion graphics, and edit. The official pipeline uses Midjourney references; Midjourney, Runway ML, and Adobe Firefly for video; Audimee and Runway ML for dialogue; and Adobe tools for editing and audio.
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